On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > > > since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user > > > on any other system to connect to your X server as well. > > > > Actually, you will be allowing any user on system 'root' to connect. > > Not according to the xhost man page:
I think you have misinterpreted the man page. You can only add users if you are authenticating via kerberos or NIS. In that case, you would have to specify 'xhost +nis:root@' to get the desired behavior. And it won't work (i.e. grant anybody any access) unless you have Secure RPC. If you just specify a single word, xhost will assume you mean a network system and in fact it will give an error if you just type 'xhost +root' and there is no system called 'root' on your network. (Yes, the man page is magically obscure on this point :} )
